Robert H. Nelson

About The Book

In recent years, a number of works have appeared with important implications for the age-old question of the existence of a god. These writings, many of which are not by theologians, strengthen the rational case for the existence of a god, even as this god may not be exactly the Christian God of history. This book brings together for the first time such recent diverse contributions from fields such as physics, the philosophy of human consciousness, evolutionary biology, mathematics, the history of religion, and theology. Based on such new materials as well as older ones from the twentieth century, it develops five rational arguments that point strongly to the (very probable) existence of a god. They do not make use of the scientific method, which is inapplicable to the question of a god. Rather, they are in an older tradition of rational argument dating back at least to the ancient Greeks. For those who are already believers, the book will offer additional rational reasons that may strengthen their belief. Those who do not believe in the existence of a god at present will encounter new rational arguments that may cause them to reconsider their opinion.

About the Author

Robert H. Nelson is a professor at the University of Maryland. Trained as an economist, he has written widely over the past twenty-five years on the ways in which the "secular" thinking of contemporary economics and the environmental movement have an underlying Christian content, with books including Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America.

Book Review

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Robert Nelson offers us a brilliant, refreshingly written, well-informed case for theism. His book is an excellent contribution to the debate over the probability of theism, a debate that includes participants ranging from the not-so-new-anymore atheists such as Christopher Hitchens to Richard Dawkins (who currently describes himself as an agnostic who is less than 100 percent sure there is no God) and Nelson’s counterparts (for example... more.

Interview

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Click on the AuthorTalk logo to the left to hear Robert being interviewed in a 2-part series about science, and the probability of God. The host puts Robert through his paces, asking about how to address Atheists that propagate the idea that any faith in God is a primitive superstition. Bob addresses the unalienable "fact" that we are only a product of Evolution, and that our belief in a higher power is only a result of our brain with its neurons firing back and forth in a soup of chemicals.

As a mathematician major from Brandeis University with a PhD in Economics from Princeton University, Robert takes us on a journey down the rabbit hole of belief and science, and drags us out at the end of our journey with an answer to God? Very Probably.